Something extraordinary happened on Election Day. Voters in the state of Utah elected Mia Love, the Brooklyn-born daughter of Haitian immigrants, to serve in the US House of Representatives.

The fact that Love, 38, is black is little cause for comment. What’s of note is that a fiscal conservative who graduated from Connecticut’s University of Hartford, supports gun rights, opposes a woman’s right to choose abortion, and wants to repeal ObamaCare has defeated a male Democrat to become the first black Republican woman — ever — to be elected to Congress. That might be a good reason to stand up and take notice.

Finally! Diversity in government.

“My parents immigrated to the US with 10 dollars in their pocket, believing that the America they had heard about really did exist,’’ Love said in a speech at the Republican National Convention in 2012. “When times got tough, they didn’t look to Washington, they looked within.’’

This election saw a huge number of voters looking within and rejecting the leftist, pro-big-government policies of President Obama. Soon, more than 100 women, Republican and Democratic, will be serving in the House and Senate, a new record. And still, that has not stopped the usual feminist suspects from whining that their sisters in estrogen have not gained substantial numbers of elective offices. I think I know why.

Republican women — ladies who cannot be counted on to support the standard, liberal political agenda — have made the greatest inroads this time around. Call it The Year of the Republican Woman. Consider:

In New York, Republican Elise Stefanik, a Harvard grad and pro-small-business leader who helped run the upstate plywood company founded by her family, won the race for the state’s 21st Congressional District, beating her male Democratic challenger. And at age 30, the incoming House member is the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. That’s an amazing feat for a woman whose greatest struggle will be to improve the often-hostile climate for business owners.

She told The Post before the election that said she feels honored “to have added an additional crack in the glass ceiling.”

Republican Joni Ernst, 44, became the first woman to represent Iowa in the US Senate after beating her Democratic challenger, a guy. Ernst serves in her state’s Army National Guard and was a company commander in Iraq in 2003. She also grew up on a farm castrating pigs — she cried in a TV commercial, “Washington is full of big spenders. Let’s make ’em squeal.’’

After serving seven terms as a Republican House member, Shelley Moore Capito, 60, holds the distinction of being the first woman ever elected to the US Senate from her home state, West Virginia. In Virginia, Republican Barbara Comstock, 55, won a hotly contested House seat, defeating her male Democratic opponent and keeping the seat for the GOP.

“This is not the triumph of women or women’s politics. This is the triumph of the politics of ideas,’’ Lisa Schiffren, senior fellow of the conservative think tank the Independent Women’s Forum, told me.

Women are “getting elected because of their policies, not because of gender or race or identity politics.’’

Readers know that I don’t agree with the entire right-wing agenda, particularly when it comes to abortion rights, which I support. But conservative women have for too long been maligned by the left as closet woman-haters at best, right-wing lunatics at worst — a kind of bigotry that should make us all cry foul.

“The contention is that a Republican is going to take away your right to abortion and contraception,’’ said Schiffren. “That’s just a joke.

“Women want jobs — for themselves, for their daughters, their sons and husbands,’’ she said. “Voters understand that the economy, immigration, foreign policy matter.’’

An 18-year-old woman, Saira Blair, a university freshman and a Republican, was elected to the House of Delegates, one of West Virginia’s two state legislative bodies, defeating her male Democratic opponent. When she’s sworn into office, she’ll become the youngest lawmaker in the country. Blair is pro-gun rights and against abortion. But she “campaigned on a pledge to work to reduce certain taxes on business,’’ according to The Wall Street Journal.

Republican women are growing in number, power and influence. Get used to it.

Bong-up idea for DC peace

It was a good day for stoners. On Election Day, voters in Alaska, Oregon — and Washington, DC — approved measures allowing the recreational use of marijuana.

While some lawmakers have signaled that they’d likely work to block pot smoking and ingestion in the nation’s capital, it’s tempting to root for wacky weed. It might be just the ticket to get warring factions to work together in harmony.

Foul way to get our goat

A pair of skinned goat heads joined together by twine were found hanging on a light pole at a busy intersection in Park Slope, Brooklyn, like an old pair of tennis shoes, upsetting animal-rights types and ordinary folks who’d just eaten breakfast.

Then a car-service worker knocked down the bloody remains and threw the heads in a garbage pail. Cops are investigating. Was this part of a Santería ritual? Voodoo? Or was it a New York City-style prank?

Whatever it was, it was gross.

Beat goes on …

He’d been indicted by a Texas grand jury on a felony charge of reckless or negligent injury to a child after beating his 4-year-old son in May with a wooden switch, leaving cuts and bruises all over the small boy’s back, buttocks, legs, hands and one of his testicles.

But prosecutors this week signed off on a sweet plea deal allowing Peterson, 29, to plead no contest to a misdemeanor charge of reckless assault. A judge did not order him to spend even a minute in jail.

Oh, he’ll have to serve probation, pay a $4,000 fine, complete “parenting’’ classes and perform 80 hours of community service. That’s a walk in the park compared with the up to two years in prison and $10,000 fine he had faced if convicted of felony child abuse.

Now Daddy Dearest wants not only to reconnect with his son, whom he was barred from seeing, but wants to resume playing football, said his lawyer. Peterson’s been on a paid leave of absence from the Vikings under a special exemption from the National Football League commissioner while his court case played out. A league spokesman would not say when or if he’ll return to the gridiron. But I think you can count on it. Football is important.

A child, not so much.

The hottest candidate

She’s one of Hollywood’s highest-paid actresses, an Oscar winner and a filmmaker who serves as a globe-trotting humanitarian, a special envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. She’s also a mother of six and is married to hunky movie star Brad Pitt, 50.

Angelina Jolie, 39, has told Vanity Fair magazine that “I am open’’ to the idea of pursuing politics. Why does she consider herself qualified to take the plunge? Then again, Jolie’s bound to increase the hotness quotient in the halls of government.